Seriously....

October 2010

Seriously, HOW does this kid manage to get cuter every day?

I don't know how she does it, but we are totally smitten with her!

On the Road Again!

 October 2010

The kids liked traveling with Jay so much, we decided to do it again!

Our kids really love hotels.

I mean they REALLY love hotels! 

Jack's favorite part is the continental breakfast.  If there are other people eating at the same time as us, he will go to the mini fridge and pass out yogurt to everyone there.  He also loves the make your own waffles. 

I have a feeling that the kid is going to expect waffles for breakfast all the time now.

This trip was to Coralville, Iowa, which is very close to where we will probably move to if we ever get our house sold.  It was nice to check out the area a bit so I could see where we would be living.

One thing we found was the Iowa Children's Museum.  Jay was able to schedule some time with us between appointments and go with us to check it out.

Lucy loved being in the airplane!

There was even a real Cessna plane for the kids to play in!

At the end, Jay and Jack went for a Carousel ride.

The kids has so much fun that the next day while Jay had meetings, the kids and I went back again!

Jack loved going back to the Lego room (Daddy had been hogging the Lego's the day before!) and building trucks and tractors.

Standing Girl!

October 2010

She can stand!  Well, kind of...she can pull her self up and lean against stuff!

At 7 1/2 months, Lucy can also crawl, feed herself puffs and cheerios and delight us all with her infectious smile!

She continues to be amazingly happy and calm, the only time we see her unhappy is if someone is eating ice cream and is not sharing with her.  Yeah, ice cream.  Lucy is number 2.  Yes, I freaked when Jay gave Jack Dippin' Dots when Jack was 4 months old and didn't allow him to have it again until his first birthday, but when Lucy was 6 months, I started giving her pudding pops and ice cream.  At this rate, I hate to think of how relaxed I will be if we have a third!

Fall Harvest

October 2010

After Jay was done working in Nebraska, our road trip continued on to Jay's parent's farm in South Dakota.  Jack was thrilled to help with the harvest.  He loved pulling carrots, digging for potatoes, but most of all, he liked the tractor.

Uncle LeRoy stopped by and gave Jack and Lucy pumpkins from his garden.  Thanks Uncle LeRoy!  We loved decorating them for Halloween!

Trip With Daddy

September 2010

Daddy travels for his job...a lot...and we miss him...a lot...so we decided to start traveling with him occasionally.  The kids' first "buisiness" trip included Ankeny, Iowa, for one night and Lincoln, Nebraska, for three nights.  The kids traveled great and loved playing in the hotels' pools'.  Jay loved being able to see us every night and we loved that too!

While in Nebraska, the kids and I checked out the Lincoln Children's Zoo, which was wonderful.  It was a small zoo, perfect for spending a half day at and seeing everything up close!  Jack's favorite part was feeding the goats.

The zoo was unbelievably kid friendly, there was places to stop and play including this sand pit with plenty of sand toys just waiting to be fought over!

 The climbing structure that the goats had was amazing!

All that fun left these two little monkeys exhausted!

Big Brothers Rock!

September 2010

Watching your children show affection for each other is absolutely heart melting each and every time!

First Family Vacation!

September 2010

In September, our little family headed out for our FIRST family vacation (that is if you don't count all of the trips to South Dakota!)! We spent three days up in Duluth and had a fabulous time!  Our timing for traveling North was perfect, the colors on the trees were spectacular.

Lucy required MANY pit stops.  On the trip we discovered that Lucy no longer tolerates her car seat.  She did love playing in the front seat during all of the stops she demanded!

We stayed at Edgewater Resort and Waterpark.  We loved it!  The weather was pretty nasty part of the time that we were there so it was wonderful to have such wonderful activities indoors!

The kids loved the hotel!  Every part of it, they loved the big beds, the view, the waterpark and having Mommy and Daddy's complete attention!  And, Lucy mastered her crawling while we were there.

The view from our room was fantastic.

We went to the Great Lakes Aquarium which had tons of stuff for Jack to get his hands on. 

We took a boat tour of the port on the Vista Fleet and Jack loved it, he especially loved the boats' horns, which everytime he heard one, he would mimic at the top of his lungs.

We also toured the William S. Irvin ship.  It was hard keeping Jack entertained for the entire tour, so he started trying to entertain the tour group with somersaults and bird calls.  Luckily, Lucy was good as gold to make up for his behavior!

On our last day, we walked along the pier and watched the ships come in.  We had a wonderful time and we are looking forward to coming back.